Subject: University of Kansas Medical Center

• Health care petition urges: Everybody In, Nobody Out

  For more than five years, medical students from the University of Kansas Medical Center have put in long hours serving uninsured patients at their Jay Doc Free Clinic. Last year, a number of students and physicians involved in such efforts started a new group, Heartland Healthcare for All. Their aim is to push universal health care beyond the walls of their free clinics and into federal legislation that would leave no patient behind.With a new president preparing to take office, they're not wast

  December 9, 2008

• Hospital recommends zoo for 275-pound woman's MRI

  Carolyn Ragan tells Fox 4 that her 5-foot, 275-pound frame was too big for the University of Kansas Hospital's MRI machine. So, she claims, they told her to the Kansas City Zoo."I thought, I know I'm big but I'm not as big as an elephant," Ragan told Fox 4. "And my husband got mad."

  January 13, 2009

• Anthony Mots was driving the firetruck that killed Aaron Becerra. Afterward, Mots’ brothers in the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department rallied to defend him

  July 17, 2008

• Scope It: Stanton Fernald and Jack Rees enlighten us with medical supplies and plastic

  February 21, 2008

• Uneasy Riders

  November 8, 2007

• Sperm: The Final Frontier

  May 31, 2007

• Life Sucks

  April 5, 2007

• Jay's Anatomy

  September 14, 2006

• Blood Simple

  Killing a retarded inmate isn’t that hard — not if you have a cooperative psychiatrist.

  June 9, 2005

• Miracle in a Bottle

  Dr. Edward McDonagh has been fighting Missouri’s medical establishment for years — and treating lots of happy customers.

  November 25, 2004

• False Docs

  KU Medical Center gets a taste of bad medicine.

  April 8, 2004

• Face Value

  Artside Out gives poverty a face -- and disadvantaged children a voice.

  April 26, 2001

• House of Horrors

  Kansas regulators wouldn't close Christine Allen's house of horrors -- until a state trooper ordered them to.

  January 25, 2001

• Internal Bleeding

  MAST ambulances race to the city's emergencies -- but who's going to rescue MAST from its own injuries?

  December 28, 2000

• Telling on trash

  Steve Chasteen drove a bulldozer at the Kansas City, Kan., Forest View Recycling and Disposal Facility. When he saw raw medical waste coming to the landfill and saw how wastewater was handled at the facility, he brought it to management's attention. Inste

  May 25, 2000

• Nurses set to battle Health Midwest

  March 9, 2000

• Pet Palooza

  April 30, 2009

• The Give a Shit List

  This week: Support the Healthy Hawks by donating old bikes and play equipment for kids in a pediatric unit; get some real facts, instead of protest-sign slogans, about Mexican immigrants' impact in the Midwest; recycle bunny-ear TVs instead of sending them to the landfill when the digital shift finally happens; and celebrate Juneteenth in a KCK neighborhood with a proud history of liberating slaves.

  June 8, 2009

• Scenes from the health-care struggle in Jefferson City

  June 11, 2009

• Hunt is on in S.M. Park, but Jason Miller promises more drama

  Shortly before midnight on September 30th, Jason Miller wrote an e-mail to his supporters. "Let us grieve for the deer who will die tomorrow," he said, "but continue to fight relentlessly for those who remain alive." ​This week, I wrote about Miller, the founder of Bite Club of KC, and the battle to save the deer at Shawnee Mission Park. Earlier this year, officials with the Johnson County Park and Recreation District determined the deer herd had grown so large that the animals were threaten

  October 7, 2009

• Saturday's protest: Animal rights activists target KU Med

  According to local activists, the deer in Shawnee Mission Park aren't the only animals in need of saving -- monkeys at the University of Kansas Medical Center are in danger, too. Expect to see these signs at the corner of 39th Street and Rainbow Boulevard tomorrow ​Sunday marked the start of National Primate Liberation Week, a nationwide series of protests organized by Stop Animal Exploitation Now, a non-profit based in Ohio. On Saturday, local supporters will hold a demonstration from 1 t

  October 23, 2009

• Tonight's protest: Animal rights activists to rally against Shrine circus

  When Jason Miller started Bite Club of KC, the group's focus was squarely on saving the deer in Shawnee Mission Park. But the Lenexa resident is making good on his promise that the organization will target other forms of animal cruelty manifesting in Kansas City.  ​Last month, a band of demonstrators gathered near the University of Kansas Medical Center to highlight the use of monkeys in brain-function experiments. Tonight their target is the Ararat Shrine Circus. According to Bite Club:

  November 12, 2009

• Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook fights for health-care freedom (cough, cough)

  Mary Pilcher Cook​God bless Kansas state Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook of Shawnee, who is leading the effort to secure a Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment. Cook, who like others on the far right is afraid of a government takeover of everything, is already worried about Kansas losing its sovereignty. "If you're like me, you are deeply concerned about the direction our country is headed, and you want to know the individuals who are at work, putting hard effort into seeing that our liberty is protect

  November 19, 2009

• Meet the Pied Piper of sick Honeywell tradesmen

  Emily HensonRoofer Marlon Smith worked at Honeywell and got sick​As an interviewer and outreach manager with the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program, Walter Smith always starts out with one question: "Do you think your health was affected by your work at the Department of Energy site?" There are three possible answers: Yes, no and maybe. "If you walked into that DOE site and you know you were healthy, then there's always that possibility that you could have gotten polluted," Smi

  November 19, 2009